Blame it all on my roots

Let’s start this post off with a show of appreciation to two kind souls who have contributed to the ongoing efforts I have initiated to capture all the DESTROY incidental art I can find.

First up we have this image sent to me by a dear friend. This design has been documented, but not this particular location. Discovered in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle.

Second, we have this image sent to me by Joseph Pyne. The design is slightly different from the local designs, but what makes this absolutely remarkable is that it surfaced in Hagerstown, Maryland. This is about as far from Seattle as you can get, without ending up in Florida, or leaving the country, altogether.

Throwing my anarchist friends another bone. Within a few weeks, the last vestiges of this endeavor will have peeled off or been painted over, so they’ll need all the pictures they can score to remind them of that time they changed the world with abstruse graffiti.

This is not graffiti, but an early salute to Thursday.

Off to make some more headway in this Neil Gaiman book. I am still having difficulty figuring out how he’s so… celebrated. Alas, if everyone wrote like William Gibson, even soap operas would be tolerable. Problem? I would venture to bet not…

Until then, etc. etc.

What’s happenin’?

Some more good news from around town.


It has been alluded that this is the secret behind my youthful appearance (or “baby face” as some insist). I remain silent on the subject. But, it’s nice to see another graffiti trend cropping up in my neighborhood.


There’s got to be a silver lining here somewhere…


This hurt my soul so very, very much.


Another sticker that just leaves me flabbergasted.


And last, but certainly not least, another DESTROY image. This one I’ve posted before, but not from my own collection; and it’s new, so that means someone, somewhere is carrying on with this endeavor. Huzzah!

Poet savant

Apparently my youngest has been secretly honing his songwriting chops, and has started to pen lyrics. He also has it dead-set in his mind that these songs are destined to be released by Nine Inch Nails on whatever album ends up being catalog number Halo 29. As such, he is likely to be highly upset that I’ve let slip this information, but I simply must leak to you all at least one of his new songs. It’s called “Big Resolver” and it goes like this:

Wanted A Dog
My Day Is Gone
Dog-phones For Fin Tale Fish’s
Big Times Big Times Big Times
Dogs For Fish’s Big Times Big TIMES TIMES!
TIMES ARE INTO THE VOID! Void Void Void Void
Wanted A Dog
My Day Is Overdone
Dog-phones For Fin Tale Fish’s
Void Fish’s Are INTO THE VOID!
Void Void Void Void Void INTO THE VOID! Void Void Void

That’s some seriously awesome stream of consciousness shit, there. Five years old and he’s already blazing the trail for a new generation of beat poets.

*beams with pride*